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Thursday Island QLD 4875

Thursday Island is located in the Outback Queensland region of Queensland, postcode 4875. It has 1,368 properties across 37 streets. Explore every street in Thursday Island, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Thursday Island

Thursday Island, QLD 4875, sits in Outback Queensland and neighbours Horn, Torres Strait and Prince Of Wales. Its 37 streets hold 1,368 properties, 735 of them houses and 633 units.

Census figures are for the Torres area. It had 3,421 residents, a median age of 30 and an average household of 3.1 people. Median household income was $2,006 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,791 a month and the median rent $200 a week. Of 950 dwellings, 565 were separate houses, 250 semi-detached, 83 flats and 29 other; 101 were owned outright, 44 owned with a mortgage and 667 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Thursday Island

  • 3,421Peoplelive in the area
  • 30Median ageyears
  • $2,006Median household incomea week
  • $200Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses565
  • Townhouses and semis250
  • Flats and apartments83
  • Other29

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,791a month
  • Household size3.1people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 101Owned with a mortgage 44Rented 667Other 138

Schools in Thursday Island

  • Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School Waiben

    CatholicPrimary

  • Tagai State College

    GovernmentPrimary and secondary

  • Tagai State College - Thursday Island Primary Campus

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Thursday Island

  1. Abednego Close19 properties
  2. Abednego Street19 properties
  3. Aplin Road9 properties
  4. Aubrey Parade29 properties
  5. Blackall Street37 properties
  6. Bowie Crescent12 properties
  7. Chester Street55 properties
  8. Clark Street39 properties
  9. Cook Esplanade4 properties
  10. Dauan Close30 properties
  11. Dauan Lane20 properties
  12. David Street9 properties
  13. Douglas Street167 properties
  14. Erub Court46 properties
  15. Hargrave Street145 properties
  16. Hastings Street40 properties
  17. Idagi Close15 properties
  18. Jardine Street7 properties
  19. John St Corner1 property
  20. John Street152 properties
  21. Loban Street34 properties
  22. Magala Close14 properties
  23. Milman Street45 properties
  24. Moa Lane2 properties
  25. Nazeer Street31 properties
  26. Normanby Street6 properties
  27. Olandi Street12 properties
  28. Pearl Street18 properties
  29. Pilot Street11 properties
  30. Poruma Street21 properties
  31. Quetta Close16 properties
  32. Saila Terrace21 properties
  33. Sailor Crescent20 properties
  34. Stephen Street30 properties
  35. Summers Street107 properties
  36. Victoria Parade70 properties
  37. Waiben Esplanade55 properties

Neighbouring suburbs

Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.